گنگا

Urdu

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit गङ्गा (gaṅgā).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɡəŋ.ɡɑː/
• Rhymes: -ɑː
• Hyphenation: گَن٘‧گا

Proper noun

گَن٘گا • (gaṅgā) f (Hindi spelling गंगा)

1. Ganges (a major river in the states of Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and West Bengal, India; a major river in Rajshahi, Dhaka, Chittagong and Barisal Divisions, Bangladesh)

Further reading

• “گنگا”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “گنگا”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2026.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “گنگا”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 529
• Platts, John T. (1884), “گنگا”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 919
• John Shakespear (1834), “گنگا”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC, page 1464
• Fallon, S. W. (1879), “گنگا”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 1010